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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas. (1544–1590) (continued)
 
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    To man the earth seems altogether
No more a mother, but a step-dame rather. 1
          First Week, Third Day.
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    For where ’s the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government? 2
          First Week, Fifth Day, Part i.
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    A good turn at need,
At first or last, shall be assur’d of meed.
          First Week, Sixth Day.
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    There is no theam more plentifull to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man. 3
          First Week, Sixth Day.
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    These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. 4
          First Week, Sixth Day.
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    Or almost like a spider, who, confin’d
In her web’s centre, shakt with every winde,
Moves in an instant if the buzzing flie
Stir but a string of her lawn canapie. 5
          First Week, Sixth Day.
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    Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut
Some cureless limb,—before in ure he put
His violent engins on the vicious member,
Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber,
And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
To save the whole, sawes off th’ infested part.
          First Week, Sixth Day.
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    Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart. 6
          First Week, Sixth Day.
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    Which serves for cynosure 7
To all that sail upon the sea obscure.
          First Week, Seventh Day.
 
Note 1.
See Pliny, Quotation 5. [back]
Note 2.
So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare: Henry V. act i. sc. 3. [back]
Note 3.
See Pope, Quotation 1. [back]
Note 4.
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.—William Shakespeare: Richard III. act v. sc. 3. [back]
Note 5.
See Davies, Quotation 1. [back]
Note 6.
See Pope, Quotation 306. [back]
Note 7.
See Milton, Quotation 283. [back]